Jean David Ichbiah (25 March 1940 – 26 January 2007) from Thessaloniki who emigrated to France.
Career
In 1980, Ichbiah founded the software development company Alsys, created to support initial work on the Ada programming language. In July 1995, Alsys merged to become Thomson Software Products (TSP), which itself would subsequently merge into Aonix in 1996. He had been chairman of the Simula User's Group and was one of the founding members of IFIP WG 2.4 on Systems Implementation Languages.
Ichbiah then joined CII Honeywell Bull (CII-HB) in Louveciennes, France, becoming a member of the Programming Research division.
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Further reading
External links
- Jean Ichbiah (1940-2007), press release by the Ada Resource Association
- "Programming pioneer dies — A tribute to Ada's Jean Ichbiah", by Phil Manchester (2007-02-02)
- Obituary by Bertrand Meyer, as published in SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
- Jean Ichbiah, 66; designed landmark computer language (Boston Globe)
- Ada inventor Jean Ichbiah dies (Computerworld)
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Ada 83 designer Jean Ichbiah dies, Ada User's Journal, Ada-Europe 2007